PSY 3001W Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Health Maintenance Organization
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[additional controls: experimenter bias/expectancy effects, solutions to expectancy problems. Use experimenters who are blind to iv manipulation: double-blind experiment, neither experimenter nor participants know what conditions participants are assigned to. [research proposal: like introduction and method sections of a manuscript, often peer-reviewed; provides opportunity to receive feedback, gives organization to proposed experiments. Trial run for experiment: shows potential for success, reveals problems in design. [manipulation check: measures whether iv manipulation had intended effect on participants. [reporting results of research: professional meetings, peer-reviewed journals. 6 steps in constructing a questionnaire: decide what information you are looking for, choose a format. Use respondents like those who will take the real questionnaire, in the same environment. Interview the respondents afterwards: edit the questionnaire and specify guidelines for its use. What do you think: avoid leading items (items that suggest a particular response), instead: Some people accept the use of nurse-practitioners.
